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Keystone Law Offices
48 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
WC2A 1JF
England
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Oliver Smith
Work Department
Brand management.
Position
Oliver has over 20 years’ experience settling disputes involving a wide range of commercial and intellectual property matters. He specialises in company and financial services disputes as well as trademark, copyright and libel claims. Oliver acts for both UK and international companies and has particular experience advising Russian entities. Oliver’s areas of expertise are intellectual property disputes (trademarks, passing off, copyright, design rights, patents); company, director and shareholder disputes; contract, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty claims; hostile takeovers and proxy battles for listed companies; financial services disputes (insider dealing, market abuse, mis-selling); professional negligence (solicitors, accountants and investment advisers); Competition Act and Enterprise Act claims and representations to OFT; defamation (libel, slander and malicious falsehood), privacy and data protection; injunctions (including freezing of assets and search and seizure of evidence); ‘Norwich Pharmacal’ disclosure orders against ISPs to identify anonymous online publishers. Oliver’s key achievements include: (i) acting for active investor in shareholder proxy battle over a listed dot com company; (ii) advising leading stockbroker in £300m certificate of deposit fraud; (iii) defending director and fiduciary duties claim by a £500m investment fund; (iv) bringing libel claim for leading FTSE 250 inter-dealer broker against a solicitors’ firm; (v) successfully defending Private Eye magazine in the longest running UK libel claim; (vi) obtaining a ‘super-injunction’ to protect the privacy of a successful sportsman; (vii) successfully defending a trade mark claim by one of the world’s largest retailers and obtaining record costs award in the Trade Marks Registry; (viii) winning a landmark reported copyright case for joint authorship of the song ‘Young at Heart’ by The Bluebells used in a VW TV advertisement.
Career
Trained Wright Webb Syrett, qualified 1973. Davenport Lyons, 1993-2000; Rosenblatt, 200-08; Michael Simkins, 2009-11; Keystone Law, 2011.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Employment > Employees/unions
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Public sector > Healthcare
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Real estate > Residential property
Firm Rankings
- Employment > Senior executives
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Finance > Islamic finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Transport > Travel
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Transport > Aviation
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Transport > Shipping
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Private client > Agriculture and estates